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J. A. HODEL.

GAR REPLAGER. No. 296.566. Patented Apr. 8, 1884.

UNITED; STATES PATENT 01mins.

JOSEPH A. HODEL, OF CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND.

4 CAR-REPLACER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,566, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed December 14, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that L'Josnrn A. HODEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gumberland, in the county of Alleghany and State 5 of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Replacers, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to that class of devices which are used to replace cars which have becomederailed, and it has for its object to provide means whereby the car-wheels may be guided up onto the track while the car is moved along the road for that purpose; means whereby the same device is adapted to be used in connection with rails of different heights, and means whereby, a portion of the securing device may be forced through the ground beneath the rail.

To this end my invention consists in the 0 construction and combination of parts formiug a carreplaccr, hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a railway, showing my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan YlGW of the bod y-piece of my device, and 4 is an end view of the device secured on a rail. A represents the body-piece, consisting of a block ofiron long enough to rest its ends on two railway-ties, and of about the same thickness as the height of low rails-say four and one-half inches-the rail shown being about.

five inches high, or, relatively to the block A,

a high rail. The lower inner curve, a, is adapted to rest on the flange of a rail. The facebis of a height corresponding to the height of the web of a low rail, and the curve 0 is o situated to fit beneath the check of the railhead. The body-piece has a hole through it flaring hopper'shaped toward its inner side, a, to receive the body of a binding-hook, B. This hook is pointedat its end d, and provided with 5 a handle, 2, by which means the said hook body may be forced through gravel, 820., under the rail, point foremost, and pushed to position with the hook engaging one flange of therail. The body A is then placed with the hole described receiving the body of the hook, and a wedge or key, 0, is driven through a hole in the hook-body, which hole is sufficiently elongated to permit the wedge to bear against the body A and draw it firmly against the rail, the body-piece, the hook, and the wedge forming a rigid clamp upon the web and base of the rail.

f represents spurs projecting from the lower side of the body A, to engage the wooden ties, to keep the device from slipping endwise, and the keying of the hook has a tendency to force these spurs into place, and to hold them engaged with the ties, because the hook-body passes in an angular direction through the body A.

To enable this device to be used with a high rail, like that shown,wedges may be placed under the body-piece to raise it, and the vertical enlargement forming the hopper shaped hole therein will still permit the hook-body to pass straight through it.

By means of the horizontal enlargement in the form of said hole the hook-body is permitted to lie somewhat diagonally in either direction to the rail, or to lie square across it, thereby permitting the best position to be se lected for the hook to rest between any two ties, and yet to allow the bodypiece to be ad justed to the ties and the rail. To accommodate these varied relations between the bodypiece and hook, the outer face of the bodypiece is longitudinally grooved to form a seat for the wedge or key 0 to rest in.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a body piece shaped on one vertical face to fit the web of a low rail, shaped on its bottom to fit the basefiange of the rail and the ties on which the rail rests, having a hopper-shaped hole through it and grooved longitudinally across the small end of said hole, of a hook having a hole through its body near the end, and a wedge shaped key shaped to engage said hole and the groove aforesaid, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the block having the hopper shaped aperture described, oi'a hook having a handle at one end and pointed at the other end, and means for securing said 100 hook to the block, as shown and described.

JOSEPH A. HODEL.

Vitnesses:

F. M. Orru'r'r, WILL H. SHEPHERD. 

